restore it to the pack.

"Is the Honourable Frederic Goodwyn-Sandys or the Honourable Mrs.
Goodwyn-Sandys at home?"

Words cannot do justice to the Admiral's tone.

The regiment was marched into the drawing-room, where Mrs.
Goodwyn-Sandys rose to receive them.


[Illustration: Mrs. Goodwyn-Sandys rose to receive them.]


She was undeniably beautiful; not young, but rather in that St.
Martin's Summer when a woman learns for the first time the value of
her charms. Her hair was of a glossy black, her lips red and full,
her figure and grey morning gown two miracles. But on her eyes and
voice you shall hear Mr. Moggridge, who subsequently wasted a deal of
Her Majesty's time and his own paper upon this subject. From a
note-book of his, the early pages of which are constant to a certain
Sophia, I select the following--

"TO GRACIOSA, WALKING AND TALKING."

Whenas abroad, to greet the morn,
I mark my Graciosa walk,
In homage bends the whisp'ring corn;
Yet, to confess
Its awkwardness,